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Chicago skyline panorama

November 10th, 2009 • Comments Off on Chicago skyline panorama

Panorama picture form Chicago – put together from 4 pictures. Just ordered it in size of 120cm x 30cm – going to look decorative on my wall.

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Chicago Architecture Boat Tour

November 10th, 2009 • Comments Off on Chicago Architecture Boat Tour

Beatiful colors during the Chicago architecture boat tour:

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The Cloud & Standards collaboration

October 27th, 2009 • Comments Off on The Cloud & Standards collaboration

Cloud Computing is a hype topic, most of you know that. Still there is a lot of interesting stuff going on during the past months and weeks. As one of the chairs of the OCCI (http://www.occi-wg.org) working group I had the great opportunity to present the status and some cloud related work during the Cloud Computing and its Applications conference. I was invited by Ian Foster to present the following slides:

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What it comes done to is the following: During OGF27 (http://www.ogf.org/OGF27) we stated to present one of the first standardized Cloud interfaces. We are almost there and soon the specification will be out in the public comments phase of the OGF editor pipeline. More important than having one standard is to have the standards collaborate while each focus on a different aspect. For example the Cloud Data Management Interface driven by SNIA (http://www.snia.org). Now we need some more efforts like demos demonstrating interoperable and portable cloud solutions.

If you wanna know what is going on for OCCI right now: We had a lot of blog posts, mails, etc going on…

BTW the OCCI sessions during OGF27 itself went pretty well and both OCCI and myself have been in the closing remarks from Craig Lee:

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My slides for OGF27 about OCCI, the Cloud and HPCcloud

October 14th, 2009 • Comments Off on My slides for OGF27 about OCCI, the Cloud and HPCcloud

Remote Component Environment

September 19th, 2009 • Comments Off on Remote Component Environment

rce_logoWhile I worked for the German Aerospace Center (DLR) I was in the lead of a project team working on the SESIS project. Definitely one of the most interesting projects I ever head. During this time I was in charge of the development of the Reconfigurable Computing Environment (RCE). Since then I moved on and started to work for Sun. But the project has moved on – And I am so happy to see it grow more mature! RCE has now been released under a open source license and been renamed to Remote Component Environment! Great stuff – Two days ago it hit version 1.4.0 – My congratulations!